It’s certainly possible to make distinctions between jerks, narcissists and psychopaths (aka sociopaths). But how necessary is it? It’s certainly plausible to posit a continuum somewhere along which we locate jerk …
About twenty-five years ago, I said something like this to a psychologist friend of mine at lunch: “You know, we’re psychotherapists, but I’m telling you…what everyone really needs…what everyone secretly wants…is a …